29 Articles

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Beyond The Soaring Rhetoric of Obama's Cairo Speech: A Toxic Innocence At Home
(2 comments) A collective tantrum rages on the right, as their ranks hold their breath and hoard bullets. In the enveloping darkness of political powerlessness, they are sleeping with their Sarah Palin night-light on, then tossing fitfully awake attempting to mollify themselves by gazing mindlessly at Fox News crib mobiles, then scanning the heavens craving a Happy Meal apocalypse.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Audacity of Hopelessness
(5 comments) There is the banality of evil, and then there is the evil of banality. Both, the present era has produced in abundance. From about the late 1970s to the present, the United States all but ceased manufacturing products and went into the business of manufacturing marketplace hype, baseless fears, and illusionary enemies.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Presidency: A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness
(19 comments) President Obama and the Democratic Congress could have ridden a wave of public discontent towards meaningful reform, but instead they have hugged the shore. And they seem to be surveying the property, scouting locations to build beach house retreats for their elitist benefactors and the militarist fantasists whose tsunami-sized arrogance wrought the present destruction in the first place.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Fastened To A Dying Animal: a short jeremiad regarding that affront to the nation's dignity known as the US election pro
(8 comments) Trivial and specious narratives drive and dominate our national political debate and it has, as a consequence, rendered the nation's public too shallow to even apprehend the extent of the damage inflicted by official treachery, professional cupidity, and the degree of their own degradation therein.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
A Q and A For The People Of A Forsaken Republic: Addressing the origins of the Who's-Your-Daddy Nation
(2 comments) When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck power emanating from an insular and arrogant elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as holding a tea dance in a tsunami.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you calling a moonbat, anyway?
(21 comments) All progressives have experienced the following nonsensical encounter of the conservative kind. Present a reasoned argument to a conservative, and, all at once, ignoring the tenet, tone and thrust of the point, they begin hallucinating a creature, only known to exist in the rightwing bestiary, known as a "moonbat" -- a mythological beast that, ironically, seems to appear when a conservative is confronted with reality

Monday, August 13, 2007
A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance: The American Normalization of Mass Murder.
(3 comments) If, during a rare press conference, George W. Bush's face were to suddenly shed its skin, right on camera, live on national television, on all channels, broadcast and cable, to reveal the countenance of a Gila Monster -- the elitist beltway punditry would begin to catalog the merits of his reptilian single-mindedness.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come
(4 comments) There is one law the lawless Bush administration and their keepers from the plundering class cannot flout: the second law of thermodynamics. They won't be able to claim executive privilege to avoid the consequences of negative entropy.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters and the Iraqi Deathscape.
(8 comments) George W. Bush is unpopular with the majority of the American public not because of the murderous mayhem he has unloosed in Iraq; rather, his standing has plummeted, due to the fact, he didn't deliver the goods. Americans are fine with fueling our republic of road rage using the blood of Iraqis (or any other distant and darker people) as long as "the mission" doesn't drag on too long or reveal too much about ourselves.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants
(3 comments) In addition, we Americans continue to believe our fables of righteous power: Big is good, goes our John Wayne jack-off fantasy. Our leaders must be large: Only Mcmansion-like men, such as Mitt Romney, are acceptable. We believe: Dennis Kucinich is too diminutive in physical stature to be president -- with the length of his body being roughly the size of Romney's head.

Thursday, June 21, 2007
Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class
(33 comments) I could never reconcile myself with the Judea/Christian/Islamic conception of god -- some strange, invisible, "who's-your-daddy-in-the-sky," sadist -- who wants me on my knees (as if I'm a performer in some kind of cosmic porno movie) to show my belief in and devotion to him -- I can't delude myself into feeling any sense of devotion to the present day Democratic Party.

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Tantrums of Mass Destruction or The Enduring Beauty of Ugly Truth: In Praise of the Shabby-Ass Human Glory of Every Day
(1 comments) [O}ur pathologies are embodied in our infant/tyrant leadership who throw global-wide tantrums of mass destruction because as a people we have forgotten how to give ourselves over to the eros of engaging the world by social and political involvement.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a Bag of Doritos for Jesus
(15 comments) The largest social faux pas of all, in the contemporary US, might be to remind a person of their powerlessness. The present paradigm must (and will) collapse: Rising gross national products, imaginative ad campaigns and faith in some mythological being returning from the sky will not cause the earth's rising oceans to recede nor its melting Polar ice caps to reconstitute.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Prisoners of Envy: Wal*Mart Nihilism Versus the Punk Rock of Blogging
The frustrations of a life defined by the narrow confines of corporatism produces these lethal states of mind, whereby the homicidal urges that are encoded into the genetic makeup of all human beings become magnified into impulses both monstrous and preposterous: Resultantly, many Americans view life and death issues as having the weightless consequences of a thrill-kill video game.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
America Has Left the Building: An Open Missive of Anger and Hope
(7 comments) Corporatism has rendered us analogous to the last days of Elvis ... Puffy, bloated -- we wheeze our way through our set ... Guarded gate communities are our own private Graceland where we die in excess and isolation. The electric lights sequined across the entire planet, now glow from space like one of Elvis's Las Vegas costumes. But does no one see the dying man beneath the jeweled jumpsuit? The land and The King are one.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
To Hell with Centrism: We Must Reclaim the Inspired Edge
(12 comments) It was leftist outsiders -- not reasonable, accommodating Centrists -- who were right about the disastrous consequences that would befall an invasion of Iraq; as we were and remain right in our revulsion to the fascistic fraud that is the Patriot Act and the War on Terror.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Midterm Elections 2006: It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black
(2 comments) Does anyone believe that the denizens of K Street have, as of late, begun enriching the coffers of the Democratic Party because the lobbyist class now harbors a secret desire to create a system where a greater diversity of views can be promulgated? Yes, and Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of East London because he wanted to draw attention to the wretched plight of underclass women in class-stratified Victorian England.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Selling Satan: Iraqi War Dead and the Collateral Damage to America's Soul
(23 comments) All human beings have a talent for the denial of the more unpalatable aspects of ourselves, but we Americans have turned denial into a form of collective genius. There is no need to burn books, if the public is too ignorant to know they exist -- or too benumbed to resonate with their content.

Thursday, October 12, 2006
A Journey Through The Mind Of Contemporary Conservatism: Clutching Our Values Aboard The Death Train Of Empire
(5 comments) For many years, these episodes of mass psychosis have been gaining velocity. Empires are inherently bughouse crazy, because, by their very nature, they grow conservative to the point of becoming totalitarian.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Six Flags Over Neo-Nuremberg: Bush, Oprah, The San Diego Chicken, And A Proto-Fascist Panopticon Of The Mind
(3 comments) Commercial advertising is a form of political speech: A very potent one and its effects are far from benign. By means of its cultural dominance, commercial advertising is promulgated, to the point of total market saturation, without any form of effective opposition; hence, by its very nature, it amounts to corporatist propaganda and serves as a vehicle of mass indoctrination.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
A Soul Defying, Tacit Approval Of Torture: How Did We Come To This?
(3 comments) essay examining how the citizens of the United States came to be a people who accept torture committed in their name.

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Reflections On Our Inner Bush: Corporate Monkeys In Our National House Of Mirrors
(4 comments) Bush is only a byproduct of the present corporate order; he is but a reflection of the everyday hubris, denial, mendacity, and exploitation of daily life in the corporatist state.

Sunday, September 17, 2006
Within The Gated Subdivision Of The American Mind: A Monument To My Comfort Zone
Americans have managed to push from our minds the carnage in Iraq, as well as the growing unease within our own minds regarding the subject. What toll does our denial take on us?

Monday, September 11, 2006
Mr. Rove's Opus of Deception: 9/11 And The Lonesome Ballad of Blind Willie McMansion.
(2 comments) An essay on why Rovian prevarications, so rife within the corporate media bubble, continue to define our life and times.

Monday, September 12, 2005
Levees Made of Lies: Rage, Grief, and the Chimera of the American Dream

Thursday, August 25, 2005
Listen Up, You Christo-Fascist Bullies -- You Apostles Of Perpetual Psychosis -- It's High Time Somebody Called You Out
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Monday, August 8, 2005
The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, Jesus, and the Death Genes
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
The Rise of Pharmatopia

Saturday, July 2, 2005
Baby George In The Land Of The Bubble People
An exploration as to the reasons why the bubble of unreality that the administration of GWB exists within will burst.